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32 Ecology L.Q. 307 (2005)
Conservative Environmental Thought: The Bush Administration and Environmental Policy

handle is hein.journals/eclawq32 and id is 317 raw text is: Conservative Environmental Thought: The Bush Administration and Environmental Policy Barton H. Thompson, Jr.* I. Conservative Perspectives on Environmental Policy .................... 312 A . L ibertarians ................................................................................ 314 B . Pareto O ptim ists ........................................................................ 317 C. Jeffersonian Conservatives ....................................................... 319 D . H am iltonian Conservatives ...................................................... 320 E. Burkean Conservatives ............................................................. 322 II. Bush A dm inistration Policies .......................................................... 323 A . Subsidy R eform ......................................................................... 325 B. Inform ation D isclosure ............................................................. 331 C. Econom ic Incentives ................................................................. 335 D . M arket M echanism s .................................................................. 339 E . F ederalism .................................................................................. 344 III. C onclusion ......................................................................................... 346 Republican Presidents over the last forty years have often produced environmental advances, although not always out of environmental sympathies! Nudged by the prospect of a tough reelection battle with Senator George Muskie, the Nixon Administration helped usher in the era of federal environmental statutes with laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Clean Air Act of 1970, and the Copyright © 2005 by the Regents of the University of California. Director, Stanford Institute for the Environment; Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law, Stanford Law School. 1. Looking earlier in United States history, President Theodore Roosevelt was the first (and arguably still the most productive) environmental president. Roosevelt, however, was unusual among Republicans, both then and for the twentieth century as a whole. For discussion of Roosevelt's environmental contributions, see Curt Meine, Roosevelt, Conservation, and the Revival of Democracy, 15 CONS. BIO. 829 (2001).

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